Products tagged with: reflections
The Elements of Effort: Reflections on the Art and Science of Running
All runners, from beginners to Olympians, will delight in this luminous compendium of wisdom wrought from many years of running. Applying his clear vision and wry wit to a smorgasbord of running-related topics, including stretching, dancing, bugs, falling, spaghetti, sweat, and the food police, John Jerome shares his contagious passion for the most basic of sports. Stripping the art of running down to its barest elements, he takes readers and runners with him on a joyous journey -- a run that revels in a profound affection and respect for the single sport that is as pure and simple as it is infinitely complex.
The Elements of Effort: Reflections on the Art and Science of Running
What Harvey Pennick's Little Red Book was for golfers, so is The Elements of Effort for runners. John Jerome's lucid essays over the last decade have made Random House's Complete Runner's Day-by-Day Log and Calendar a seventy-five-thousand-copy-a-year phenomenon. Now he has gathered his accumulated wisdom of running into one small, elegant volume. "The Elements of Effort" is a powerful book that lays out the fundamentals, from which all else may be built. Jerome contemplates such disparate subjects as eating, training, energy, biochemistry, seasons of the year, work and play, aging, physics, ligaments, psychology, neurology, and sweat. His lively, straightforward language and his unerring vision will show runners the deep structure of their passion. An indispensable book for all runners, beginner to Olympian.
